Chris Jones
@joneszer.bsky.social
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This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
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Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
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If these 8 democrats do this, I hope they experience the most miserable primary campaigns in history www.politico.com/live-updates...
Senate hopes for shutdown breakthrough Sunday
Senators believe enough Democrats are ready to reopen the government.
www.politico.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If these 8 democrats do this, I hope they experience the most miserable primary campaigns in history www.politico.com/live-updates...
How is this an appropriate message on a government agency webpage?
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
How is this an appropriate message on a government agency webpage?
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okay the kids are off to school so
I filed dozens of FOIAs to learn what programs were selling the most booze
the answer is obviously Wisconsin (by a LOT lmao) but here's who else cracked the top of the list. raw sales data and per capita data here:
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/who-is-sel...
I filed dozens of FOIAs to learn what programs were selling the most booze
the answer is obviously Wisconsin (by a LOT lmao) but here's who else cracked the top of the list. raw sales data and per capita data here:
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/who-is-sel...
Who is selling the most booze at football games this year? We FOIA'd to find out.
SURPRISE! Wisconsin football fans enjoy adult beverages, film at 11.
www.extrapointsmb.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
okay the kids are off to school so
I filed dozens of FOIAs to learn what programs were selling the most booze
the answer is obviously Wisconsin (by a LOT lmao) but here's who else cracked the top of the list. raw sales data and per capita data here:
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/who-is-sel...
I filed dozens of FOIAs to learn what programs were selling the most booze
the answer is obviously Wisconsin (by a LOT lmao) but here's who else cracked the top of the list. raw sales data and per capita data here:
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/who-is-sel...
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I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.
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I M P E A C H
President Donald Trump has demanded that the Department of Justice pay him a whopping $230 million in compensation for its criminal investigations of him after his first term in the White House ended, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
More details: cnb.cx/4qruFXC
More details: cnb.cx/4qruFXC
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I M P E A C H
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This white-tailed kite was out ruling the sky today 👑🦅
Small mammals, look upon him and despair
#birds #wildlifephotography
Small mammals, look upon him and despair
#birds #wildlifephotography
October 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This white-tailed kite was out ruling the sky today 👑🦅
Small mammals, look upon him and despair
#birds #wildlifephotography
Small mammals, look upon him and despair
#birds #wildlifephotography
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What an incredible journey of a sentence
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What an incredible journey of a sentence
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this is a tacit admission that the administration is not confident in the legal arguments it would have to make in order to detain them, which should also cast into question the legality of the operation in the first place
Those men are super dangerous drug smuggling terrorists, which is why . . . we are letting them go.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
this is a tacit admission that the administration is not confident in the legal arguments it would have to make in order to detain them, which should also cast into question the legality of the operation in the first place
Welp there's always arsenal. They've never let me down.
October 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Welp there's always arsenal. They've never let me down.
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Fortune favors him; we cannot know why. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Gov. JB Pritzker won $1.4 million in Vegas playing blackjack
The billionaire Illinois governor, who is on the 2028 presidential short list, reported the earnings in his latest tax filings after playing blackjack at a Las Vegas casino.
www.nbcnews.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Fortune favors him; we cannot know why. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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so since it tips off the wall it's in play so with the bases loaded it's a force at home and third. Incredible
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
so since it tips off the wall it's in play so with the bases loaded it's a force at home and third. Incredible
Demands to see Bernie
October 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Demands to see Bernie
Someone only watches for the slide into the mug.
October 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Someone only watches for the slide into the mug.
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I would like to point out (once again) that last season, William Saliba got a faint touch on the ball before clashing heads with Joao Pedro.
It was given as a penatly on the pitch and VAR upheld.
I'd woud like to know what Laws of the Game reasons distinguish that from Pope on Gyokeres today.
It was given as a penatly on the pitch and VAR upheld.
I'd woud like to know what Laws of the Game reasons distinguish that from Pope on Gyokeres today.
September 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I would like to point out (once again) that last season, William Saliba got a faint touch on the ball before clashing heads with Joao Pedro.
It was given as a penatly on the pitch and VAR upheld.
I'd woud like to know what Laws of the Game reasons distinguish that from Pope on Gyokeres today.
It was given as a penatly on the pitch and VAR upheld.
I'd woud like to know what Laws of the Game reasons distinguish that from Pope on Gyokeres today.
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BIG GABI REDEMPTION!!!!!!
September 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
BIG GABI REDEMPTION!!!!!!
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I'm not sure why a touch on the ball from Pope means he can take Gyokeres down. It's still a foul.
September 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm not sure why a touch on the ball from Pope means he can take Gyokeres down. It's still a foul.
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
September 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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we should reduce public input in 80-90% of governance. the people have proven themselves to be extremely untrustworthy. a handful of dipshits should not be able to stop, like, building a train station that could service millions
rich nimbys in charlottesville lost the political debate over zoning, leveraged the legal system to try to stop it, and are going to lose the political debate again for the simple reason that the voters of cville support zoning reform and have elected a city council that intends to see it through
Plaintiff in city zoning case speaks out - Cville Right Now
One of the plaintiffs in the White vs. Charlottesville zoning lawsuit laid out the reasons for the action against the city.
cvillerightnow.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
we should reduce public input in 80-90% of governance. the people have proven themselves to be extremely untrustworthy. a handful of dipshits should not be able to stop, like, building a train station that could service millions
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Many of the LA Sheriffs didn't have their gas masks on yet so the Sheriffs got gassed by LAPD
LAPD was on the radio crying about getting shot by rubber bullets by the sheriffs, so I'd say fair trade
Typical level of professional policing for Los Angeles. Waiting for CHP to join the fun.
LAPD was on the radio crying about getting shot by rubber bullets by the sheriffs, so I'd say fair trade
Typical level of professional policing for Los Angeles. Waiting for CHP to join the fun.
June 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Many of the LA Sheriffs didn't have their gas masks on yet so the Sheriffs got gassed by LAPD
LAPD was on the radio crying about getting shot by rubber bullets by the sheriffs, so I'd say fair trade
Typical level of professional policing for Los Angeles. Waiting for CHP to join the fun.
LAPD was on the radio crying about getting shot by rubber bullets by the sheriffs, so I'd say fair trade
Typical level of professional policing for Los Angeles. Waiting for CHP to join the fun.
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They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.
June 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.
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**taps paragraph from Hunter S. Thompson's Nixon obituary**
June 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
**taps paragraph from Hunter S. Thompson's Nixon obituary**